women in hip hop

Artists like the Wu Tang Clan and Tupac Shakur garnered international attention by challenging activists to fight, thinkers to think and DJs to rock the party. Rumors would say that the female artist emerged during the course of hip hop history. But the truth is that the female artist arrived on the scene at the end of the seventies along with other male rappers. Lady B was one of the first female rap artists to record an album. When it comes to achievement, having a female hip hop artist record an entire album not only showed the world that she had the skills, but the potential to survive in a male-dominated genre. Later, other female rap artists would emerge from the underground such as Salt n’ Pepper, The Real Roxanne, Roxanne Shantae, Queen Latifah, MC Lyte (first to land a major record deal), Lil’ Kim, Foxy Brown, Lauryn. Hill, etc… Although only a few emerged from the underground, there are countless amounts of female talent that never made it to the big leagues. The question today is where is the variety pack? What happened to the female selection of hip hop CDs in local music stores or DJ booths? When a girl wants to hear what a woman has to say about a woman’s worth, how can they find an album they can relate to?

Every woman in the world has her own story. Not all women are single or even want to lead a single life. In fact, according to statistics, 69.3% of American women have been married, divorced, widowed or separated. 30.7% have never been married. With such a low statistical rating, it’s amazing to single women how most music is oriented around those who lead a single and promiscuous lifestyle. By choosing a female hip hop artist who can relate to the real issues in life, the record labels have failed us. There are countless numbers of men who promote mental growth, knowledge, education, and understanding, such as Common, Mos Def, 9th Wonder, etc. But today’s female artist seems to be more materialistic and mentally immature. That’s not to say there aren’t countless men within the gender who are negative. But the fact is that there are a wide variety of men dominating the game on both sides, but few women are heard in the entire industry that promotes positivity through its lyrical content.

Hip hop has become a league that is almost equivalent to law firms and medical fields during the ’50s and ’60s, when the women within those industries were nothing more than litigation secretaries and nurses who, by the way, they did most of the actual work. The music industry in the US does not teach young women of the future anything about how to survive in life. They are being taught that it is okay to lower their standards in order to get ahead. Are women constantly promoted as self-sufficient but uneducated back-up dancers, bitches, hoes and materialists? Where is the reality in the industry that pretends to keep it real? Although Rolling Stones magazine crowns Nicki Minaj the Queen of Hip Hop, it would be hard to prove that she isn’t due to a lack of competition. There aren’t enough female voices within the industry to get top results in the Best Female Rapper category during major award ceremonies. When most talk about female rappers, we can only look back in times past to those who reigned long before this generation. If the female voice is going to survive within the world of hip hop, then they will have to introduce new faces that have never been heard or seen before. In times past, there were many women who emerged from the underground. Of course, that was before the venture capitalists and seekers got involved.

rapper’s fall

Most female artists in the late 90s were often portrayed by men as a promiscuous gang banger who would do anything to protect the man who disrespected her by continually calling her bitches and hoes publicly. Although a decade has passed, not much has changed since that era. The woman presented to the public today does not have a backbone of her own and is often demeaned by men and presented as modern concubines.

Today, activists might compare the modern women’s hip hop movement to Saartje Baartman. For those who don’t know the story of Saartje Baartman, she was a slave from South Africa who was idolized for the size of her buttocks. They were so amazed by her appearance that they offered to pay her as a dancer. If she followed this plan, she could raise money for the poor tribe she belonged to. Instead, they tricked her and used her for her own selfish agenda.

According to former South African President Mbeki,“What followed were five years of museum exhibitions and fashion parties, her spectacular buttocks and bare breasts, French and British men and women crowding around her, taunting her even as her body made them uncomfortable with its own desire. Her days were marked by rapes and scientific examinations.

This is something that young black women should be aware of when engaging in such behavior. Although Saartje Baartman’s story has been passed down through plays, spoken word performances, blogs, and books, she apparently failed to make her way into the homes of America’s urban women. According to African American history, black girls in the past have been blamed for rape, abusive relationships, and accused of being weak-willed and materialistic. When popular culture promotes this type of image to the masses of people, they give the world that same impression of urban women. That can be insulting not only to the average black woman but also to her daughters. People continually perish for lack of knowledge. When they are not informed of the things that happened within their own history, they lose sight of their own cultural identity and, as a final result, allow themselves to be used in the way that Saartje Baartman was used. Record labels, promoters, producers, managers, etc. (black or white) of hip hop feed young women false information about what it takes to make it as a rapper. His entire goal is to achieve her own personal agenda. At the end of the day, when the industry is done using her, she is shoved aside like a nobody while she watches the top producers and so on fool her through someone else. (Lil Kim vs. Nicki Minaj) Even more than that, they monopolize the supposed beef from her. What is more concerning is that even blacks, some educated, continue to promote this image because they see it as a stepping stone to success for themselves and the black community. But how does this affect the black community? In 2010, there were 434,758 live births to parents between the ages of 15 and 19. That’s 41.5 live births per 1,000 and African-Americans have the highest rate according to the US Census Bureau. 63% of the adolescent population within the United States had an STD in 2010. Teenagers African Americans ages 13 to 19 accounted for 1,919 AIDS cases alone. (Respect your mind, protect your body) Hip hop magazines, blogs and more go out of their way to promote negative images of black girls because that’s what’s hot in popular culture. Speaking out against things that affect the black community has become an act of hate and doing evil has become the history of African American culture as per the stereotypes that are often promoted through the mainstream media. . Not a few black men lead other cultures into thinking it’s okay to disrespect the average black girl in this way. When others talk about it, racism is the dam that keeps the propaganda in place, giving political parties the motivation to mock Black people like the President of the United States through the stereotypes promoted in mainstream media. media. According to Fox News’ Eric Bolling, Obama chills in the white rampage with thugs as he blows up the forties.

Until the rapper realizes how demoralized she is by the mainstream, she will never develop a community like that of men within the hip hop genre. Education is the key to survive life. We’d like to see the average female rapper not only succeed on the hip hop charts in America, but in everything she does in life. It is important that black women stand up and speak out against those who market negative images of themselves. Women need to create a movement to let the world know that they are so much more than what you see on TV. From DJ’s, break dancers to presenters, women have proven in the past to be as talented as any man. But who will support today’s strong women? Who will support the talent that everyone says doesn’t exist, but has a large underground community?

There must be someone who can talk to the girl with low self-esteem, since she is also a part of this world. There must be someone who can counsel the poor at heart through her music, or open the blind eye. Teaching everyone is what rap intended. It wasn’t created just to liven up a party, and for those who do say so, it would question their passion and knowledge of not just hip hop, but life in general.

What does it take to succeed as a rapper in today’s industry? Lyrical skills no longer matter. To make it in the world of hip hop back in the day, you had to have real talent. Now, if a female artist wears an outfit that promotes sexuality, self-tuning can make up for areas where she lacks creativity. Lyricism no longer counts in a world that corporate America has taken over. It solely depends on how well she can dress or how much money she has earned from her glorious hurried lifestyle. It seems as if women are no longer able to consciously think aloud. Not all black women are uneducated, and many have decent jobs, a college education, and live a positive lifestyle with their husbands and children. The big question is why corporate America continues to spread hip hop/rap music propaganda across the face of the earth keeping urban youth subject to an old crack epidemic lifestyle.